{"id":31010,"date":"2022-06-01T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T08:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/?p=31010"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:14:17","slug":"1922-2022-celebrating-100-years-human-rights-advances-fidh-prepares-for-challenges-of-the-century-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/1922-2022-celebrating-100-years-human-rights-advances-fidh-prepares-for-challenges-of-the-century-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"1922\u20132022: The FIDH celebrates 100 years of human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
May 28th is an important date for FIDH<\/a>, and 28 May 2022 even more so! Today marks 100 years since 15 national organisations defending human rights came together to found the first international human rights organisation. On 28 May 1922, FIDH was born. And with it, the idea that a federative model is the solution we needed to defend and promote human rights worldwide. 100 years later, we are more convinced than ever that the solidarity at the heart of this model is what we need to continue our fight for human rights for the century to come.<\/section>\n
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#FIDH100 \/ www.FIDH100.org<\/a><\/h3>\n

It is no accident that FIDH\u2019s motto, at its founding, is \u201cPeace through human rights.\u201d In the aftermath of World War I, Europe was devastated and in shock. The national human rights organisations of 20 countries, including the organisations from France \u2013 the Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme<\/i> \u2013 and Germany \u2013 Bund Neues Vaterland<\/i> \u2013 gathered in Paris to found FIDH, to promote peace through human rights and cooperation between countries so the atrocities of World War I would not happen again.<\/p>\n

The founding organisations came from Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

This cooperation between human rights organisations worldwide is possible thanks to FIDH\u2019s federative model. With cooperation and solidarity central to its way of operating, FIDH has always been ahead of its time and has accomplished remarkable achievements in its first hundred years<\/a>, calling for a World Declaration of Human Rights and a permanent International Criminal Court as early as 1927. These campaigns finally succeeded with the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 and the creation of the International Criminal Court in 1998.<\/p>\n

As decades passed, this federative model grew stronger. African human rights organisations joined the Federation in the 1970s following decolonisation and independence, like the Tunisian Human Rights League in 1978. FIDH kept growing, boasting 178 member organisations in 2010, and no fewer than 192 in 117 countries today.<\/p>\n

Again and again, the need for cooperation and solidarity proved to be an absolute necessity over the years. At Poland\u2019s emblematic Pozna\u0144 riot trials, FIDH denounced the abuses of the communist regime, which wielded violent repression against peaceful protesters demanding better wages. FIDH was present again to document the crimes of dictatorships all across Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s and to take part in the trials. Standing with victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity and litigating in cases such as the Rwandan genocide in 1994, the atrocities perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979, and the crimes committed by Bashar El Assad\u2019s regime in Syria, FIDH remains resolutely committed to its federative philosophy and its motto.<\/p>\n

Not only does this model promote and defend human rights worldwide; it is also a guarantee for human rights defenders everywhere that they do not face authoritarian regimes and threats alone. Each time a human rights defender is threatened, arbitrarily arrested, judicially harassed, tortured, or forcibly disappeared, FIDH conducts advocacy, raises awareness, investigates abuses, and provides legal assistance. The recent case of Salah Hammouri, a Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender, epitomises how FIDH\u2019s federative nature supports human rights defenders worldwide by providing legal assistance: the organisation filed a complaint<\/a> against NSO Group, which infiltrated Hammouri\u2019s phone with its spyware Pegasus, and recently made a new submission to the International Criminal Court<\/a> detailing the harassment by Israeli authorities he has been enduring for years.<\/p>\n

While solidarity benefits individuals, it benefits organisations, too! In the same way that FIDH stands up for human rights defenders, it also stands up for its member organisations when they are threatened and prevented from carrying out their legitimate human rights activities. In Belarus<\/a> for instance, the authorities shut down 275 human rights organisations<\/a> in 2021 alone and arbitrarily imprisoned seven human rights defenders<\/a> from FIDH\u2019s member organisation Viasna in 2020. FIDH has been actively working to free Viasna\u2019s members, defend the organisation\u2019s essential work, and denounce the repressive regime<\/a> in Belarus.<\/p>\n

As we know all too well, human rights must never be taken for granted and many challenges await us for the century to come. The war in Ukraine and climate crises are bitter reminders of this truth. But if we\u2019ve been able to achieve a century of victories thanks to solidarity, cooperation, and our federative model, another 100 years of victories is well within reach!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to 2122.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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